Civil Society argues that civil society should not be studied as a separate, private realm in opp...

Karl Polanyi's 1944 book, The Great Transformation, offered a radical critique of how the market ...

According to accepted wisdom, rational practices and ritual action are opposed. Rituals drain wea...

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Describes how the ideals of self-sufficiency shape economic activity in many post-socialist areas...

This volume brings social and cultural anthropologists into dialogue with historical sociology an...

Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world...

Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific was a major contribution to anthropological theory ...

Civil Society argues that civil society should not be studied as a separate, private realm in opp...

Karl Polanyi's 1944 book, The Great Transformation, offered a radical critique of how the market ...

An innovative contribution to the thinking about economic anthropology.The ethnographies illiumin...

The focus on regular versus precarious labour.Case studies from outside the familiar Euro-America...